The story of “Romeo and Juliet” was written by William Shakespeare. Where Romeo and Juliet’s love was supposed to end up happy, the story ends in a tragedy as both Romeo and Juliet kill themselves, but who was to blame for the two of them killing themselves. The most blameable characters for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are Fate, Feud, and Friar Lawrence. The most blameable of these characters is Fate. The most blameable character for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is fate. In the prologue, it says “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life” (DBQ: Project, 2013), and this means that it was destined for them to die from the start and this was their fate. The prologue also says “The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love” (DBQ: Project, 2013), and this means there was meant to be deaths in the love of Romeo and Juliet. This is why Fate is the most reasonable character to blame for the deaths. The next character to blame for their deaths is Love. When Balthasar tells Romeo that Juliet is dead, Romeo says “then I defy you, stars!” (DBQ: Project, 2013). This means that he is blaming fate for the death of Juliet. This has a lot to
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He married Romeo and Juliet too fast and did not think of the things that could happen with letting them get married. He did not get the letter delivered to Romeo that was supposed to tell him that Juliet was not actually dead. He said this was “Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood”, which just means it was bad that the letter was not delivered. Friar Lawrence not getting his letter delivered to Romeo was a huge reason that the tragedy happened because if Romeo knew Juliet was still alive, he would not have killed himself, and if Romeo had not killed himself, Juliet would not have killed herself when she saw Romeo dead beside her. Friar Lawrence should have made sure the letter got delivered, but it did not, so this is why Friar Lawrence is also to blame for their
He married Romeo and Juliet too fast and did not think of the things that could happen with letting them get married. He did not get the letter delivered to Romeo that was supposed to tell him that Juliet was not actually dead. He said this was “Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood”, which just means it was bad that the letter was not delivered. Friar Lawrence not getting his letter delivered to Romeo was a huge reason that the tragedy happened because if Romeo knew Juliet was still alive, he would not have killed himself, and if Romeo had not killed himself, Juliet would not have killed herself when she saw Romeo dead beside her. Friar Lawrence should have made sure the letter got delivered, but it did not, so this is why Friar Lawrence is also to blame for their